Illegals from China

We're used to hearing about illegals being apprehended around here.  So far this year there've also been over 200 bodies found in the desert and near town.  What caught my eye in this report was the illegals from China. Again. 

Border Patrol incidents stack up

In three incidents Tuesday, agents arrested six illegal immigrants from China. All were traveling with groups of illegal immigrants from Mexico and were found east of the Nogales Port of Entry.
     Agents from the Casa Grande Station also arrested three illegal immigrants from China near Interstate 10 on Tuesday. No other details were available.
     Agents found a decomposed body Tuesday on a trail near State Route 90. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched and took over the scene.
     Agents received a report Tuesday of a possible person in distress trying to flag down cars in Three Points. A Border Patrol EMT was dispatched to the scene, where the man admitted to being an illegal immigrant m Mexico and said he was experiencing abdominal pain, cramping, nausea and vomiting. He was taken to a hospital.from: Green Valley News

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Heat stroke. Guess who's going to pay that hospital bill. Maybe nobody. Maybe the people of Arizona. When she was our Governor, Janet Napolitano tried and tried to get the feds to cough up some bucks.  Don't know how successful she was but I do know there have been hospital closings in towns nearest the border because of the cost of taking care of illegals.

I haven't kept track, tho I suppose Border Patrol has exact statistics, of how many Chinese illegals there have been. But I've taken note that they don't usually come across one at a time.  Perhaps they're families.  


Why are they coming?  How are they getting to Mexico? You'd think such a trip would cost a lot of money, a small fortune to someone who's poor.  If a person has the money to make the trip, why not come legally? Are they earning the money to pay for the trip after they arrive? In sweatshops? Is Canada experiencing the same thing?


It's not unusual to find other ethnicities mixed in with Mexican illegals.  I take note of them.  Middle easterners aren't surprising. The Chinese are.  I wish I knew more about it. One more thing to research :)


Speaking of which, War Of The Wolf, about the first USS Seawolf (SS-197), and The Dead Hand, about the Cold War Arms race, came yesterday.  The pile of books beside my bed gets taller and taller.  I'm currently reading Ship of Ghosts, about the first USS Houston; and Bicycles, Donkeys, Deserts and Fish, an autobiography by a resident of the Isle of Lewis.  


Also in the pile - The War I Always Wanted, on Afghanistan & Iraq; Hero of Bataan, on General Jononathan M. Wainwright; Silent Steel, about the loss of the nuclear attack sub USS Scorpion during the Cold War; and All Hands Down, also about Scorpion but on CD so I can listen when I can't read.  I'd be a slave to the library if not for Amazon.com.  Since I discovered used books, CD's, and DVD's on their site I've been in heaven!   


I still read fiction from time to time - usually the Amanda Peabody series about archaeology in Egypt.  The first book of the series annoyed the heck out of me - she keeps addressing the "dear reader" and I really didn't like it.  I couldn't tell you tho if she continued that way.  The content is just so interesting that if she's still doing it I don't see it anymore.  Don't know how many are in the series but I own 15 of them.  Most came as trades at the local bookstore so I'm watching Amazon.com for new or like new copies.  Just scored a "like new" copy that doesn't look like its even been opened for less than a dollar.  Gotta love that!